Largest Canadian collection of Mexican Modernism on display now at Vancouver Art Gallery

VANCOUVER.- As a university student, Michael Audain travelled to Mexico to view the art of Mexican modernist masters Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco. He was inspired by the vibrancy and powerful social message of their art, and his passion for these artists remained with him. Many years later, the Audains began collecting their work and, today, own the largest collection of Mexican modernist art known in Canada . The Audains’ entire Mexican modernist collection – [...]

Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires celebrates its 10 year anniversary

BUENOS AIRES.- Established in 2001, Malba – Fundación Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina, prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary, with several exhibitions and events planned to mark the occasion. Thanks to an artistic exchange agreement with the Latin American Art Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), this September 14 loans from its Permanent Collection will travel to Malba, along with the Carlos Cruz-Diez retrospective: Color in Space and Time, curated by Mari Carmen Ramírez. [...]

Felipe Calderon and Cristina Fernandez Inaugurate Rescued David Alfaro Siqueiros Mural

BUENOS AIRES (AP).- Submerged in obscurity and perilous conditions for most of its nearly 70-year history, a mural by painter David Alfaro Siqueiros, now carefully restored, was inaugurated Friday by the presidents of Mexico and Argentina in a place of honor just steps from the presidential palace. Moments after Felipe Calderon and Cristina Fernandez honored the work Siqueiros created in 1933, titled “Ejercicio Plastico” or “Plastic Army,” hundreds of people rushed in to see what Siqueiros created in 1933 during [...]

Autry National Center Presents Siqueiros in LA: Censorship Defied

LOS ANGELES, CA- The Autry National Center sheds new light on one of the world’s most influential artistic developments of the 20th century—and bring attention to a critical but little-known moment in the growth of the Los Angeles cultural scene—when it presents the new exhibition Siqueiros in Los Angeles: Censorship Defied from September 24, 2010 to January 9, 2011. Organized by the Autry National Center in partnership with Legacy & Legend Productions, with loans of artworks and materials from major [...]

Exhibition of Latin American Masters on View at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City

MEXICO CITY.- The term cannibalism, just like Oswaldo Andrade interprets it in 1928, becomes very useful when discussing Modern Art in Latin America. Inspire on the digestive system, Andrade proposed that local culture should devour and transform modern art lessons- mainly European- in order to articulate a regional proposal with its own significance. Even if a proper methodology for Latin American comes out form such proposal, it leaves aside the active role several Latin American artists played in the conformation [...]

Landmark Exhibition of Siqueiros Landscape Paintings Announced

LONG BEACH, CA.- The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) joins the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (MACG), Mexico City, in presenting Siqueiros Paisajista / Siqueiros: Landscape Painter. This exhibition reveals the renowned Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros as a major landscape painter. The significance of the collaboration between MOLAA and the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil has been recognized by the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles who has made this exhibition an official part of its Mexico 2010 celebration [...]

Figge Art Museum Unveils Exhibition of the Deere Art Collection

DAVENPORT, IOWA.- The Figge Art Museum opened Global Currents: The John Deere Art Collection on Saturday April 24, 2010. The exhibition is the first opportunity for the general public to see works from Deere & Company’s corporate art collection. In 1965, William Hewitt, then chairman of Deere & Company, established an art collection to compliment the company’s new modernist world headquarters in Moline, Illinois, which was designed by Eero Saarinen. With significant art originating from the United States, Latin America, [...]

The Intriguing Story of Muralist Pablo O’Higgins Told in New Book

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Becoming Pablo O’Higgins tells the intriguing story of how a blond-haired, blue-eyed Presbyterian from Salt Lake City, Utah, became a celebrated Mexican muralist. Born Paul Higgins in 1904 into a conservative Republican family of Mayflower English and Protestant Scots-Irish ancestry, O’Higgins, at age 20, boldly traveled to Mexico City at a time when Mexico was still reeling from its violent 10-year revolution. He went to see the mural renaissance involving Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David [...]

Mural Paintings at Castillo de Chapultepec Now on the Web

MEXICO CITY.- From the second half of 2010, the National Museum of History “Castillo de Chapultepec” will include in its web page an interactive guide to the most acknowledged murals that represent the Independence and Revolution struggles, painted in the precinct. The paintings are “Fusion de dos Culturas” (Merger of two Cultures) by Jorge Gonzalez Camarena; “Retablo de la Independencia” (Independence Tableau) by Juan O’ Gorman; “Revolucion contra la Dictadura Porfiriana” (Revolution against Porfirian Dictatorship) by David Alfaro Siqueiros, and [...]

The Box Shows Robert Mallary’s Work in Los Angeles for the First Time Since 1954

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Robert Mallary (1917-1997) was an artist interested in new materials and cutting edge technologies that would enable him to be on the forefront of art making. Freely blending figurative and abstract imagery in imposing, gritty assemblages Mallary created a unique body of work that is complex in material and form. The Box brings the work of Robert Mallary to Los Angeles for the first time since 1954. Robert Mallary was interested in exploring how different materials could [...]

Center for Fine Arts Presents the Image of “the Mexican”

BRUSSELS.- Mexican Images is the centrepiece of the Mexico Festival. The exhibition presents the image of “the Mexican “, As seen through the eyes of Mexican and foreign artists. Portraits of unknown and powerful Mexicans, images of ethnic minorities, and satirical works illustrates the artistic heritage and political and social aspirations of an ever-changing country, from the pre-Columbian era to the 20th century. Mexican Images spans the four great periods of Mexican history: the pre-Columbian era, the colonial period, independence, [...]

Bozar Presents an Extensive Multidisciplinary Mexico Festival

BRUSSELS.- What better way to start the spring than by marking the bicentenary of Mexico’s independence and the centenary of its revolution? Behind the clichés of the Aztec god Quetzalcóatl, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and revolutionaries in sombreros, you can discover, over three months, a rich and complex nation, constantly reinventing its “Mexicanness”. Could Mexico, shaped over two centuries by the creative explosion of an incredible cross-fertilisation, be the archetype of the nation of the future? Find out at five [...]